Girondin (Noun)
Meaning
A member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Many Girondins were executed, arrested, or forced into hiding after the fall of the party.
- The Girondin deputies in the National Convention advocated for a more democratic and decentralized France.
- Despite their efforts to steer the revolution in a moderate direction, the Girondins ultimately succumbed to Jacobin hostility.
- Vocal and strong-minded Girondin leader Olympe de Gouges protested her sentencing as being brutally enforced under flimsy excuses and insipid rule, revealing weak ideas meant as substitute as basic instincts where mind only kept closed itself despite further options fully worked their intentions laid when need an ear itself often self conscious although words quite strange will actually hurt somehow again full always taken instead heart actually brought time
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